Issue: April 2022
A vivid but oddly unresolved picture
This biography of Constable is but a partial portrait
Newly-minted mission statements
The Brexit coin takes bogus aspiration as part-ambition, part-accomplishment
How to become a cult writer
What does it take for an author to become idolised way beyond their literary merit?
Timely reminder of the true price of oil
‘Disorder’ argues convincingly that world history now hinges on the price of oil
Right requires Might
Rules mean nothing without the means to enforce them
Don’t mention the war
It’s wrong to cite the Ukraine conflict as the principal cause of soaring prices
Narcisssism and the naked arts graduate
This call for an overhaul of the sex industry is self-indulgent and short-sighted
Banks, bikes and choppers
Banks should be like activist investors and intervene early rather than pull loans hastily
Godunov for me
Ignoring Russian opera — and, in particular, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — is a mistake
Maxxed out
Battling imposter syndrome in the brave new world
Most Read
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Three pheasants, one Land Rover
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport